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On Howland, Baker and Jarvis.
From Our Own Correspondent,
Honolulu, Dec 2.
THE final chapter in the story of the loss of the American aviators, Mrs. amelia Earhart Putnam and Fred Noonan, near Howland Island, in mid- Pacific, was nearly completed last week, when a stone plaque, inscribed “Earhart Light, 1937”, was set as a base for a
navigation light-tower which is being built on the western side of Howland (see “P.LM.” of November).
A short ceremony was held at the placing of the plaque by U.S. officials, led by Dr. Ernest Gruening, director of the division of territories of the U.S.
Department of the Interior, which administers the island.
The light-tower will be 20 feet high, and the 300-millimetres acetylene-gas lantern on top will have a visibility of 10 miles.
Dr. Gruening, upon return to Honolulu last week, announced that a similar light and tower will be built on nearby Baker Island, and on Jarvis Island, 1,000 miles due east.
Dr. Gruening spiked rumour by stat ing that the U.S. Navy will continue to administer U.S. Samoa and Guam, humour had it that the Interior De partment was to take over the islands.
Pastor R. W. Lane, of the S.D.A.
Mission at Suvavou, Fiji, has been ap pointed principal of the Mission’s train ing school at Buresala, Ovalau Island.
The Earhart Monument, set up on Howland Island by the United States.